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25 Oct
2006
25 Oct
'06
6:57 a.m.
2) The paragraph after the figure is indented, even if it comes right after a \section.
<wild speculation> Thinking about how I prevented such parindents in my plain TeX days, by using \ignorespaces\noindent in the definition of \section. If that's what ConTeXt does, perhaps the \placefigure code inserts a spurious space, which normally doesn't show up because it's inserted in vertical mode, but it is enough to confuse the \ignorespaces? -Sanjoy `Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.' --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.